http://dir.salon.com/topics/world_news/?source=rss&aim=world_news en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT By Marc Hujer, Wolfgang Reuter and Christoph Schwennicke Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/04/07/obama_g_20/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/04/07/obama_g_20/index.html?source=rss World leaders may have struggled to reach consensus, but they did break new ground: Barack Obama admitted his country was responsible for the current crisis. By Curtis Sittenfeld Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/09/12/fay_greene/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/09/12/fay_greene/index.html?source=rss Journalist Melissa Fay Greene talks about the enormity of the African AIDS crisis and why, as the mother of five, she decided to adopt four Ethiopian orphans. By Dave Lindorff Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/04/05/bush/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/04/05/bush/index.html?source=rss Corporate interests are trumping human interests in President Bush's handling of the spy plane crisis. By Scarlet Pruitt Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/12/02/fox/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/12/02/fox/index.html?source=rss Boasting a radical plan to open the border and expand trade with the U.S., Vicente Fox takes office and sets the tone for a new North American order. By Flore de Préneuf Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/11/30/barak/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/11/30/barak/index.html?source=rss By calling for early elections, the embattled Israeli prime minister buys a little time, but also places his fate in the hands of Yasser Arafat. By Salon foreign correspondents Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/10/world_reacts/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/10/world_reacts/index.html?source=rss From the streets of Paris to offices in Japan, the world chuckles and shrugs at the U.S. election circus. By Mark Schapiro Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/11/07/montesinos/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/11/07/montesinos/index.html?source=rss How Vladimiro Montesinos' old nemesis helped force the former Peruvian spy chief out of comfortable exile in Panama -- and could compel him to face trial at home. By Laura Rozen Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/31/serbia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/31/serbia/index.html?source=rss With the media liberated from Milosevic's control, the nation begins to face its demons -- but propagandists and journalists are in a tug of war. By Richard Blow Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/23/kosovo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/23/kosovo/index.html?source=rss As international support for Kosovar independence wanes, hatred still seethes between Albanians and Serbs. And the U.N. oversees their division. By Flore de Préneuf Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/18/unrest/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/18/unrest/index.html?source=rss Palestinians and Israelis alike question the outcome of Clinton's Middle East peace summit. By Flore de Preneuf Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/07/asel/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/07/asel/index.html?source=rss After a popular, peace-loving Israeli Arab teen is shot dead by police, his family and friends -- both Jewish and Arab -- wrestle with what his loss means for Israel. By Jackie Lyden Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/lyden/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/lyden/index.html?source=rss Daughter of the Queen of Sheba By Laura Rozen Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/04/milosevic/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/04/milosevic/index.html?source=rss In a scene reminiscent of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's demise, thousands of ordinary Serbs overpower police to support striking coal miners. By Flore de Preneuf Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/03/violence/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/03/violence/index.html?source=rss Desperation fuels an ominous round of fighting in the Holy Land. Has the Mideast peace process finally blown apart? By Laura Rozen Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/03/serbia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/03/serbia/index.html?source=rss Serbian cops are standing back while strikers shut down Yugoslavia, but will Milosevic accept a bloodless defeat? By Laura Rozen Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/09/25/yugoslavia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/09/25/yugoslavia/index.html?source=rss Early election returns in Yugoslavia show the opposition with a forceful lead, but will the indestructible Milosevic wriggle out of defeat? By Bruce Shapiro Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/09/15/berenson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/09/15/berenson/index.html?source=rss Drug war money from the U.S. has helped prompt a retrial in Peru for jailed American Lori Berenson. By David A. Wernick Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/08/17/venezuela/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/08/17/venezuela/index.html?source=rss By befriending U.S. enemies like Saddam Hussein, Hugo Chavez risks alienating his troubled country's biggest trading partner. By Flore de Preneuf Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/08/10/peace/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/08/10/peace/index.html?source=rss The failure of the Camp David summit could spell war, and soon -- or it could be the best thing for the Middle East peace process. By Ana Arana Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/05/18/colombia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/05/18/colombia/index.html?source=rss With lives and money at stake in the Colombian drug war, one human rights lawyer takes a pragmatic approach to influencing U.S. aid. By Laura Rozen Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/05/18/milosevic/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/05/18/milosevic/index.html?source=rss The Serbian president turns out the lights on the independent media and Serb protesters clash with police. By Flore de Preneuf Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/05/13/lebanon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/05/13/lebanon/index.html?source=rss Why Lebanon isn't euphoric about the impending pullout of Israeli forces. By David Rieff Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/05/08/congo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/05/08/congo/index.html?source=rss A feud between Richard Holbrooke and Madeleine Albright shadows what will likely be useless U.N. aid to war-torn Central Africa. By Vivienne Walt Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/05/01/zimbabwe/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/05/01/zimbabwe/index.html?source=rss Angry and impoverished blacks say they're taking back the farms whites stole in the first place. But are they fighting the wrong enemy? By Fiona Morgan Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:04:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/28/fitzgerald/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/28/fitzgerald/index.html?source=rss Frances FitzGerald, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Fire in the Lake," says Americans still get Vietnam wrong because we can't stop looking at our collective American navel.